The 1920s

Red Scare

100

During the Red Scare, Americans were most afraid of this kind of economic system or kinds of people

Communism/Communists

200

Americans were scared of these kinds of people that come from other countries

immigrants/foreigners/communists

300

Name for Americans that want laws to limit foreigners in the United States.  They oppose immigration and support quotas

Nativists

400

Americans put these in place which limited the number of immigrants that could come into the country

quotas

500

This event occurred as the US deported many suspected communists without due process

Palmer Raids

African-Americans

100

This anti-immigrant, anti-African American, anti-communist, anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish group saw their numbers grow in the early 1920s

Ku Klux Klan

200

In this event, about 500,000 African-Americans moved north for jobs and to get away from the worst discrimination

Great Migration

300

This neighborhood in NYC was the leading cultural city of African-Americans in the 1920s

Harlem

400

Name of the flowering of culture of African-Americans in the 1920s

Harlem Renaissance

500

Was Langston Hughes an artist, musician or poet?

Poet

Booming Economy

100

When the 1920s started, was the economy hurting or booming?

hurting (recession)

200

Many Americans bought items through what new process?

installment buying, buying on time, credit

300

People bought stock in this way...

on margin/on Wall Street

400

This power source powered many new appliances

electricity

500

Henry Ford used this technique to make automobiles affordable for average Americans

assembly line

20s Culture

100

19th amendment

women's suffrage

200

Women who went to clubs, cussed, smoke, drank, wore their hair in a bob (short) and wore short dresses

flappers

300

What law (18th amendment) no longer allowed the production, sale, purchase or consumption of alcohol?

Prohibition

400

America's pastime/favorite sport of the 1920s

OR 

Jack Johnson was America's first African American champion in this sport

Baseball

Boxing

500

Duke Ellington/Louis Armstrong are associated with what musical form?

Jazz

Causes of G.D.

100

Borrowing money to buy stock is 

buying on margin

200

Credit in the 20s was easy or difficult to get in the 20s

Easy

300

Farmers in the 20s saw prices go up or down

down

400

This kind of tax on an import is sometimes called protectionism

tariff (Hawley-Smoot tariff)

500

The Federal Reserve should have done what in the 1920s to cool off the economy so it didn't crash

raised interest rates